Nostr is the very first place where Communities can #interop. Where you go niche, without giving up reach. Where Communities have pricing and guidelines on an open protocol, so that they can finally offer publishers the huge grey zone in between "publish only here" or "publish on the public square". Publishers need the ability to target their stuff to the Communities that allow them + are actually interested. On Nostr they can.

yes the public communities def need to be connectable. the private ones do not. there is a HUGE need and desire for private communities out there. add high-agency identity and money exchange and it’s sure-fire hit. View quoted note →

Uh... It might just be me having a dumb moment, but, isn't the network effect that "one person draws in many others to their network, which inspires others to join said network"? People don't join nostr because they think it is a community of "just" bitcoiners. They do join BlueSky because some of their favorite creators go there too. They start creating on BlueSky because it is presented to them as a better alternative than Twitter (I hear many artists went to BS because they felt more welcome there) Communities in Nostr never (really) worked out because people spent forever arguing on how to name them or how to make them accessible. Reddit has r/name, 4chan also had a prefix system...so nostr has n/naddrkajröoilgjsdröofjsdöflkgjhsökldjg - not exactly the easiest to throw a friend while sitting in a bus and chatting :p (it should've just been nip-05 reuse, imho; n/name.tld -> name.tld/.well-known/nostr-community.json -> npub + metadata imho). Private communities SHOULD stay either on their own relay (making sure that people's private space totally stays private) whilst public ones should be spread as far and wide as possible but advertised with several "core relays". Again, I could be misunderstanding you in this one, apologies if I did. ^^' But I think it's less of a problem in relay distribution, but more of a... "marketing problem". Making people interested, feel welcome and give them a good reason to join. For example: "You should use Nostr communities because Patreon and Twitch take a cut off of your payment, but we do not." ... however, payments on nostr are crypto, and not that many folks are into crypto, especially creators who just wanna create and have an easy out. So the client, for this kinda system, would have to abstract this away to high oblivion and possibly even offer a custodial service for the ease of use. o.o; I.e., hold an API token to a BitRefill account, which the creator can link, and then use to both receive lightning but also "cash out".